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British Forum => General Discussion => Topic started by: DavidC on September 19, 2015, 05:22:04 pm

Title: Aircraft reported underground
Post by: DavidC on September 19, 2015, 05:22:04 pm

Tried the unit in the air for the first time today as pax. Plenty of aircraft seen around Bristol and Exeter, but these showed up as 7,000 feet below us when we were at 4,500. So something's not quite right. I did enter the QNH of 1024, but that should at most only affect the reported altitude by about 250 feet. I tried both 1013 and 1024 including rebooting the box with no significant effect.

Has anyone else seen this behaviour?

Title: Re: Aircraft reported underground
Post by: Admin on September 19, 2015, 05:30:59 pm

that is Bonkers.
I think I need to investigate that, thanks for the heads up

Title: Re: Aircraft reported underground
Post by: Admin on September 19, 2015, 05:39:31 pm

Aahhh
Now there is a bug in SD I reported a week ago regarding incorrect height annotation
I wonder if this is the same bug ?

Title: Re: Aircraft reported underground
Post by: Richard on September 20, 2015, 05:43:16 pm

Had the same thing todasy.... I was at 2600ft south of Breighton and spotted an aircraft landing at Breighton at -4700ft

The Mus ba a bug...

Richard

Title: Re: Aircraft reported underground
Post by: Admin on September 21, 2015, 09:43:16 am

I will double check the code in PilotAware and also check with Tim Dawson at SkyDemon.

On my ToDo list is a logging facility so I can replay what is captured whilst flying.

Title: Re: Aircraft reported underground
Post by: Admin on September 22, 2015, 01:33:06 pm

I asked Tim Dawson about this issue reported, as it reminded me of something I had seen previously

Message from Tim Dawson @ SkyDemon

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Hello Lee
I’m sure it’s the same bug, which is not the fault of your data. SkyDemon 3.4.2 is only a few days away and it will resolve the issue. Android users can already download a public beta from our website.
Tim Dawson | SkyDemon

Phew!

Title: Re: Aircraft reported underground
Post by: Admin on October 02, 2015, 09:12:24 am

Looks like the SD Altitude bug is fixed in the new release.
I am now seeing other units in my testbed appearing at the same altitude in SD

If anyone sees anything strange please let me know

Title: Re: Aircraft reported underground
Post by: ianfallon on October 02, 2015, 09:25:22 am

Yes   :D I tested this last night and was going to post - beat me to it  :D
Great news